envenom

Example Sentences

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Still, an ascent by Ben-Gvir, a West Bank settler, to a ministerial role would further envenom Israel's standoff with the Palestinians and strain its internal Jewish-Arab ties.

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2022

Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were private wrongs to envenom the contest, but it was the mercantile quarrel on which the Colonel chose to set his declaration of war.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

To avoid the breach being healed by an apology, many of the crofters sought to envenom the quarrel by refusing to believe that the elder was altogether right.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

Why not suppose it was a vile calumny by which some enemy tried to envenom his existence?

From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando